Very Bad Poetry
Very Bad Poetry

Author: Kathryn Petras

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1997-03-25

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0679776222

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Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).

The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems
The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems

Author: Brian Moses

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1760986380

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The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems is a brilliantly funny anthology of the most giggle-worthy children's poems from one of the nations most celebrated children's poets, Brian Moses. Perfect for gifting and for reading aloud, you'll be chortling along with Brian as he shows you the funniest poems in the world! Explore chucklesome poems about pets, funny creatures, school, family, fantasy and fairy-tales, dinosaurs and dragons, space, and just plain SILLY poems. With poets such as Brian Bilston, Sue Hardy-Dawson, Pie Corbett and Paul Cookson next to Liz Brownlee, Mike Jubb, James Carter and Rachel Rooney, this is the ultimate hysterical collection of rib-tickling poems guaranteed to make you laugh out loud.

Seriously Funny
Seriously Funny

Author: Barbara Hamby

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 0820330876

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Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, Seriously Funny ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the midst of terrible darkness. Most of the selections were made in the editors' battered compact car, otherwise known as the Seriously Funny Mobile Unit. During the two years in which Barbara Hamby and David Kirby made their choices, they'd set out with a couple of boxes of books in the back seat, and whoever wasn't driving read to the other. When they found that a poem made both of them think but laugh as well, they earmarked it. Readers will find a true generosity in these poems, an eagerness to share ideas and emotions and also to entertain. The singer Ali Farka Tour said that honey is never good when it's only in one mouth, and the editors of Seriously Funny hope its readers find much to share with others.

Humorous Poetry for Children
Humorous Poetry for Children

Author: William Cole

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Published: 1955

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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A collection of humorous poems, some by well-known and others by obscure poets.

Revenge of the Lunch Ladies
Revenge of the Lunch Ladies

Author: Kenn Nesbitt

Publisher: Running Press Adult

Published: 2012-06-19

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1442455691

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The lunch ladies will finally have their revenge! From the lunch ladies getting back at kids who complain about cafeteria food, to principals who disappear into thin air, school has never been so funny. Revenge of the Lunch Ladies is sure to keep the laughs coming with each giggle-packed page. Kenn Nesbitt has created forty-five silly poems and songs all about school. Revenge of the Lunch Ladies is sure to keep the laughs coming with each giggle-packed page. Kenn Nesbitt has created forty-five silly poems and songs all about school. Following the success of When the Teacher Isn't Looking, this book combines Nesbitt's talent and sense of humor to deliver a knee-slapping collection. If silly principals and crazy lunch ladies don't have you laughing, a science project that ate the student's dog will!

The Funny Side
The Funny Side

Author: Wendy Cope

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780571288151

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In The Funny Side Wendy Cope, herself one of the funniest poets now writing in English, has collected 101 of the poems that have most amused her. Acknowledged classics of the genre are to be found alongside newer pieces, and the collection as a whole illustrates the great range to be found under the heading of 'humorous poetry'.

Just Kidding
Just Kidding

Author: Martin Pierce

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781522841548

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This book of funny poems will have you laughing out loud. There are rhymes about animals, school, weird monsters - in fact, anything that is unusual, silly or just plain daft. Definitely not a book to be missed by anyone who is under the age of 140 years old with a sense of the absurd.

Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems
Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems

Author: Joseph Victor von Scheffel

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13:

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The following book is a collection of funny poems written by Joseph Victor von Scheffel. He was a German author, and the poems were written during his time studying law at the University of Heidelberg. Featured titles in this book include 'Rodenstein and the Priest', 'Hesiod', 'Asphaltum', 'Hildebrand and Haudebrand', 'The Three Villages', and 'The Wild Army'.

The Oxford Book of Comic Verse
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse

Author: John Gross

Publisher: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199561612

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From limericks to social satire, The Oxford Book of Comic Verse offers a remarkable collection of outstanding light poetry. John Gross has brought together the finest writers in the history of the English language - from Chaucer and Skelton to Shakespeare and Swift, Lord Byron to Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson to John Updike, as well as witty song lyrics from such artists as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter - offering delightful examples of their comic verse. Drawing on many different types of verse, including epigrams, street ballads, advertising jingles, clerihew, music-hall lyrics, and the doubledactyl of the calypso, this highly entertaining collection offers an exceptionally wide range of comic pleasures. The poems are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful. Written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. Compiled by one of our finest critics and anthologists, this reissue boasts a stylish new design and a fresh contemporary feel.